RE: New writer looking for advice

[Paul Hanson <twer_lists_all -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

When I am documenting software, I have the system I'm documenting on one
monitor and the tool I'm using to write the content on the second monitor. 

The idea for a third monitor came from seeing a co-worker who writes a lot
of functional specs. I've witnessed him using two of his three monitors like
I do and the third one for monitoring emails. 


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Subject: Re: New writer looking for advice

Why would a tech writer need two monitors, let alone three, which sounds
like an ergonomic nightmare?

I can only look in one place at a time and I can context-switch with
keyboard shortcuts and my KVM switch as fast as I could look at a different
screen. Large displays with 16:9 aspect ratios provide such huge desktops
that I can treat them like two displays anyway.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Paul Hanson <twer_lists_all -at- hotmail -dot- com>
wrote:
> If you are using 3 (or more!) monitors, I'd be curious about the specs 
> for that device. My current laptop graphics card only supports 2 
> monitors. I am in the market for a new laptop for my daughter to take 
> to college in fall 2015. I'd like to get her one that supports 3 
> monitors in case she finds out she needs that capability.
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